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Social Services Will Not Touch us with a Barge Pole’: Social Care Provision for Older Prisoners
- Source :
- Articles
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Technological University Dublin, 2015.
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Abstract
- Older prisoners are the fastest growing subgroup in the English and Welsh prison estate. Older prisoners have high levels of health and social care needs. This mixed-method study involved the distribution of a questionnaire examining the availability of health and social care services for older prisoners to all prisons housing adult males in England and Wales, followed by qualitative telephone interviews with representatives from eight prisons. Over half of establishments had some contact with external social care services, but reported significant difficulties in arranging the care for individuals. A professional lead for older prisoners had been identified in 81% of establishments; however, the value of this role to positively affect practice appeared questionable. Statutory social care was often non-existent in prison due to the lack of understanding of what it constituted and who was responsible for its provision.
- Subjects :
- Gerontology
medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject
Distribution (economics)
Social Welfare
Prison
Affect (psychology)
Social and Behavioral Sciences
behavioral disciplines and activities
Welsh
Sociology
Statutory law
mental disorders
medicine
Psychiatry
media_common
business.industry
virus diseases
social sciences
older prisoners
social care provision
unmet social needs
older prisoner lead
older prisoner policy
language.human_language
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
language
population characteristics
Social care
Estate
Psychology
business
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Articles
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f5466ea63313d2f76ad96bf46ba24ac0